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The federal government sued the New Jersey attorney general and other state officials to stop them from seeking information about telephone companies' cooperation with the National Security Agency.
The US Senate voted unanimously to force President Bush to submit a budget for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars instead of financing them in emergency bills that are pushed through Congress with minimal scrutiny.
The first pictures showing a live specimen of a rodent species once thought to have been extinct for 11 million years have been taken by a retired Florida State University professor and a Thai wildlife biologist. They took video and still photogra
Asia has the "second mover advantage" of being privy to all the Western World's mistakes. They are able to see where profligacy and runaway entitlement programs have led.
A confidential House Republican Iraq strategy memo shows an effort from House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) to put renewed focus on 9/11, paint Democrats as "cut and run" advocates and frame a future Iraq "victory" as "
In the aftermath of the 3 suicides at the controversial Guantanamo prison facility in Cuba last Saturday, reporters were ordered by the office of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to leave the island today. A third reporter and a photographer w
Federal air marshals say their guns are loaded with bullets capable of running through more than one person, metal doors and thick glass -- too much firepower for an airplane. "Not only is the person getting shot in danger, but everyone on the p
The American Medical Association voted to refine its ethical guidelines that forbid doctors from participating in torture or "coercive" interrogations of prisoners. Prompted by unconfirmed allegations that physicians or psychiatrists played
The United States reasserted its right to develop weapons for use in outer space to protect its military and commercial satellites and ruled out any global negotiations on a new treaty to limit them. Such weapons systems would be purely defensive.
The judge declared an end to the defense phase of Saddam Hussein's trial, shrugging off protests from the former Iraqi leader's lawyers that they have not had a fair chance to present their case and want to put more witnesses on the stand.
measure of prices excluding the volatile food and energy categories, rose, reaffirming the belief among many economists and investors that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates again later this month (excluding the volatile food and energy???
Jennifer Boulden spends hours a day trying to woo online users to her idealbite.com website. The site, which offers sponsored tips on eco-living, is the top listing at Internet search engine Google when her company name is searched. But she knows
Even as PCs and home video-game systems become friendlier to casual players, the common cellphone is morphing into a device intended to entice hard-core gamers.
President Bush, just back from Iraq, dismissed calls for a U.S. withdrawal as election-year politics and refused to give a timetable or benchmark for success that would allow troops to come home.
EBay has 200 million registered users of its online auction services, which would make it the 5th-largest country in the world if its members could form a nation, its CEO said. Only, China, India, the US and Indonesia are larger in terms of populatio
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is financing a new Web site that will investigate stock fraud and corporate wrongdoing. The billionaire also said he'll buy and sell stocks based on information before the site publishes it. Cuban said he has
Found a 4,500-year-old burial in Mexico that had the oldest known example of dental work in the Americas. The upper front teeth of the remains had been ground down so they could be mounted with animal teeth, possibly wolf or panther teeth, for ceremo
Investigators found that gravity switches on the Genesis probe designed to trigger the deployment of its parachutes were installed backward. Genesis' chutes never opened and it slammed into the Utah desert on Sept. 8, 2004, after a three-year
A Fort Worth grandmother can resume handing out religious literature to students outside Crowley High School, as long as she doesn't block a section of sidewalk where students board school buses. Crowley school officials had barred her in April 2
[Just like the good old days under Saddam in the land of the free.] Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's month-old government rolled out its first major initiative against violence, announcing tighter crackdowns in the capital city in an attempt to c
A super-powerful computer has simulated what it might take to keep Earth safe from a menacing asteroid. Boslough first noted that there are two "end-member strategies" in the Golevka work: Deflection and disruption
Pimco's Bill Gross, head of the world's largest bond fund, says it's time to drop the strong dollar policy and restore U.S. manufacturing strength. Mr. Gross is everybody's go-to guy when it comes to reading the tea leaves about Fede
What is a well-established (and deliberately unaddressed) fact is that the United States government and US-connected intelligence agencies created Islamic "terrorism."
The financial data coming out of China is alarming. Growth in the first quarter hit a torrid 10.3%. On June 12, the government reported that China's global trade surplus hit $13 billion in May, with exports climbing 25% vs. the year-ago period. T
Lawmakers caught up in ethics investigations have plenty of cash just in case they someday face hefty lawyers' bills. House and Senate members detailed their finances Wednesday in the midst of public and government scrutiny of certain dealings
A jet leased by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for use in emergencies has instead been used to shuttle the secretary of Health and Human Services to appearances and meetings at a cost of more than $700,000 since January, a newspaper r
A nanny who was arrested after police viewed hidden camera video recordings that appeared to show her shaking a 5-month-old baby is suing the recording system's manufacturer. Spent 2 years awaiting trial before prosecutors dropped the case becaus
Somalia's parliament on Wednesday approved deployment of foreign peacekeepers to the anarchic nation, a move opposed by newly powerful Islamist militias controlling Mogadishu, the parliament speaker said.
Truth hasn't just been stranger than fiction this year; it's been better, with documentaries emerging as some of the strongest – and best-reviewed – films so far. Granted, we're not even halfway through 2006 yet.
Having failed to defeat Islamist factions in Somalia through covert action - yet unwilling to see the lawless country on the Horn of Africa become a haven for Islamist extremists, including Al Qaeda - the US is preparing for a more diplomatic kind of
